Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 101

"Well, honest man," replied Oonagh, "if you're not able to eat the bread, say so quietly, and don't be wakening the child in the cradle there.

Who acts: honest man, you · What happens: reply, not be, eat, say, not waken · To what, where: Oonagh, bread, child, cradle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest man, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 man	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 able	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 able	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 able	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 able	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 able	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 able	advmod
16	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 replied	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bread	det
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 able	parataxis
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 quietly	advmod
24	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	22 say	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wakening	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wakening	cc
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 wakening	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 wakening	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 wakening	aux
30	wakening	waken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 say	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 child	det
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wakening	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 cradle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cradle	det
35	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wakening	obl
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 cradle	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	honest man	Oonagh			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oonagh=Topic
2	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			able property	tree rules
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive		the bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not waken in a quote	infinitive · progressive · do-support		the child	the cradle		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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